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f I. UNITED STATES PATENT @Friesel HOMERl GLEAsoN, 0F HAMPSHIRE, ILLINOIS.

WATER-TANK.

SPECIFIATION forming part of LettersPatento. 377,427, dated February 7,

Application tied August s, 18er.-

Serial N'o. 246,406. (No model.)

. provement in Water-Tanks, of which the following is a specification. f Y

This invention relates to the construction of the metallic fasteningsby which the parts of wood tanks or troughs, principallyusedin watering farm-stock, are held together. My design therein has been to render thefastenings readily applicable and removable, to Vadapt them to clamp the various parts in such manner as to make all the joints water-tight, and also to so construct them that Vthe pressure exerted by them may be quickly increased whenever and in whatever part of the tank a leak occurs. f

The main feature of the invention consists in the employment of transverse strainingbands consisting of angle-irons at each of the corners of the tank, with female screws formed in each end, and connecting-bolts between each pair of angle-irons, such bolts being reversely threaded at their rends and adapted to enterl the threaded ends ofthe angle-irons. By the use of these bands the horizontal joints in the sides and ends can be clamped very tightly, and the same is true of the' joints in the bot ton and of Vthose between the bottom and s1 es. i

Another feature of the invention consists in the clampingdevice employed at the ends ofthe tank, the same being a hook setting down upon the endplank and having a shank shaped like an inverted T and adapted to receive the tightening-bolts extending from each side and the bottom of the tank. y

In the accompanying drawings, which form 'a part of this specification, and in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts,y

illustrated shows both'the sides and ends made in two parts, the joints betweenthe parts being indicated at a, and in the modifb' cation, Fig. 3, they are shown inl three parts The bottom in 'this with two such-'joints. A

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latter figure is also made in two pieces, a joint, a, as indicated.

The transverse.tighteningbands are corn- Lposed of rigid angle-irons D, one at each corv of these may be formed of asirgle'plank or. of two or more separate planks. The tankner, and the tightening-bolts E, connecting each adjacent pair of angle-irons, the bolts l being' reverselythreaded at .their ends 'to adapt them to enter the threaded openings d in the ends of the irons and to draw uponsuch irons when rotated. The central portion, e,

ofy the bolts may be square or otherwise fashthem. These transverse bands, being continthe use of these bands great `facility is ob- .'ioned to receive, a proper tool for turning uous, are applied to each end of the tank, and

in such number to the intermediate portion as the length of the tank or the strength desired may demand, and it willbeobserved that by tained, both `in putting/the tanks togetherand also in tightening the joints wherever and'l whenever vthey may needit, the verticalt bolts Y serving to tighten the joints'between the parts composing the sides, and the bottom bolts acting to close any leaks between the parts ofthe f tank-bottom or in the j oints between thebottom bottom or sides. The arms of the angle-irons may have such length as is requisite to enable i them tosustain the bottom and sides atpoints away from' the edges of those parts, and some of the arms may be longer than others for this purpose. v

At the ends of the tank'l prefer not torely wholly uponK the strengtheningfbandsy abovey described, but to employ inconnection there,-

with the hook F, engaging at its hooked; end

with the upper edge of the end board, and ybolts G, passing throughthe sides and the bottom, as shown, and entering threaded open-l ings in the lower end of said hook. The said roo V bands prevent anytendency to bulge bythe lower end of the hook may be advantageously fashioned like an inverted T, the limbsf receiving the side bolts and the center or extremity of the hookshank receiving the bottom bolt. Lcngthened Washers 7L may be applied to the exterior surfaces of the tank to re ceive the pressure from the heads of the bolts G. It will be readily seen that these bolts G, in connection with the hook F, serve to clamp the center portion of the bottom and sides at the points where these parts are least aected by the transverse bands, and also to close any joints there may be in the ends of the tank when such ends are made in two or more parts. If the size or required strength `of the tank demands, I may employ two or more of the hooks F, as shown in Fig. 8, and may also pro-' vide them with additional lateral branchesf, whereby I am enabled to increase the number of the bolts G, and Where two or more hooks are employed together in this manner I pre- Y fer to unite them by tie-bolts g, similar to the bolts E. rIhe washers 7L, Wherever used, are

placed across the joints a, as shown.

'connecting said irons and adapted to draw them together, substantially as set forth.

3. The water -tank provided with transverse straining bands extending entirely around the tank, and also having at their ends hooks F and bolts G, passing through sides and bottom, substantially as specified.

IIOMER A. GLEASON. XVi tn esses: v

' O. S. MoALLIs'rER, 

